Water bottle



F. FENTON WATER BOTTLE March 12, 1935.

Filed Oct. 51, 1953 Patented Mar. 12, 1935 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE WATER BOTTLE Frank Fenton, Akron, Ohio, assignor to The B. F.

Goodrich Company, New York, N. Y., a corporation of New York Application October 31, 1933, Serial No. 696,061

1 Claim. (Cl. 150-1) This invention relates to the manufacture of a dispersion of rubber by deposition, an excephollow rubber articles having a filling opening tionally tough article results, and no seams are and is especially useful in the manufacture of present. The body of the bottle may be of difwater bottles and the like. ferent shapes depending upon the use to which it 5 Heretofore it has been customary to make the is to be put. The neck, which is of uniform thick- 5 body of the bottle and the filling funnel continness with the body and is formed as an extenuzous and to vulcanize or cement a rigid bushing sion thereof, is adapted to be slipped over the in the neck thereof to receive the threaded closure bushing 11 and to be conformed to the groove 13. plug. Such a construction necessitated the use For this purpose the neck may be provided with of complicated and expensive molds and necesa corresponding construction 16. w sitated the provision of relatively thick walls in To secure the neck of the bottle to the filler the body portion of the bottle. bushing, the neck is cemented in place and a The one piece structure did not permit the use binding of frictioned fabric or cord 17 is applied of different rubber compositions having different over the groove in the bushing. This assures physical characteristics in various parts of the against spreading of the neck and consequent 15 bottle. Where it was found convenient or desirleakage when the fluid in the bag is under presable to provide a relatively rigid funnel, it became sure. necessary to make the body of the bottle rigid The filling funnel 18 is separately formed, prefalso. erably by molding it, from a rubber composition,

20 The principal objects of this invention are and in order to assist in retaining the neck por- 20 to provide a construction whereby materials of tion of the bottle and to protect the binding 1'? different physical characteristics may be incorfrom any liquid which might overflow the funnel, porated in different parts of the body, to proand to protect the edge of the neck from any vide against leakage of fluid, to provide improved force tending to rip the neck, the funnel is formed appearance, to make possible the use of a thin, with an integral skirt 19 having an inwardly 25 flexible body member with a stiff, thick funnel facing ridge 20 adapted to fill the remaining porwhile concealing and protecting the edges of the tion of the groove in the neck to lock the funnel thin material, and generally to provide a novel in place. While the skirt may be of such dimenstructure. sions as to retain the funnel by tension alone, it Other objects will appear from the following is preferred to cement it securely in place, there- :0

description and the accompanying drawing. by preventing entrance of moisture to the bind- Of the drawing: ing 17. Fig. 1 is a cross-sectional view of a water bot- This construction permits of the funnel being tle, embodying and made in accordance with my made of any shape and of irregular wall thickinvention in its preferred form, the section being ness without the use of excessively large or com- 35 taken along the axis of the filler opening. plicated molds, whereas the body may be made Fig. 2 is a section on line 2-2 of Fig. 1. of different material of uniform thickness. The Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the filler bushing. parts may be made in separate colors. Referring to t drawing, the fi e u hing 10 This construction also reduces cost of manufacis made from hard rubber ,or other rigid water ture where bottles of different sizes and shapes 40 PTOOI material- An p g is formed thereare required, as the same type of funnel and filler through and threaded to receive and retain the bushing may be used with different bodies. stopper 12, the opening preferably being lined I claim: as usual with a metal ferrule 11. A peripheral A fluid container comprising a flexible thin groove 13 is also formed in the bushing to provide walled bag having a neck portion. a circumferen- 45 an interlock with the neck of the bottle. tially grooved filler bushing retained within said The body 14 of the bottle may be formed of any neck portion and cemented thereto, a binding of elastic waterproof material such as rubber and inextensible material applied over said neck to is preferably made of thin material and subconform the neck to the groove in the filler stantiallyuniform in thickness all over, as such bushing, and a molded funnel, said funnel being 50 a body may then be readily constructed without provided with a depending skirt to embrace the the use of expensive molds either by depositing neck of the bag and formed with an annular inthe rubber from a dispersion or solution thereof wardly (Extending ridge to engage the groove over u n a form, or by seaming together calendered said bin ing.

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